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Glow. No. 238,262, Patented March 1,1881.

N.FEFERS, PHOTO-LITHOGHAFHER, WASHLNGTON, D c,

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HENRY URWIOK, OF WESTWOOD HOU'SE, ST. JOHNS HILL, WANDSWDRTH, COUNTY OF SURREY, ENGLAND.

GLOVE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 238,262, dated March 1, 1881. Application filed December 24, 1880. (No model.) Patented in England November 26, 1880.

To all whom .fit may concern Be it known that I, HENRY URWIGK, a subject of the Queen of Great Britain, residing at Westwood House, St. Johns Hill, Wandsworth, in the county of Surrey,England, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Gloves, (for which I have received Letters Patent in England, No. 4,928, dated 26th No-4 `vember, 1880;) and do herebyv declare that the following is afull, clear, and exact description of the invention, which will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

The object of this invention is to form kid and other gloves in such a manner that the hand may be inserted into them with greater ease than is now usually the case, and yet that the gloves shall, when on the hand, tit closely around the wrist. For this purpose, in place of forming a glove as heretofore usual, with an open slit extending from the welt at the extremity of the Wristband toward the center ofthe palm, so as to allow ot' the hand being inserted into the glove, and also forming 'a separate hole or opening in the kid for the thumb-piece to be seWed to, l form the opening to which the thumb-piece is to be sewed and the slit in the Wristband as one contin nous slit. The part of the slit to which the base of the thumb-piece is to be sewed being at an angle across the palm ot' the glove, while the slit in the Wrist is in a line with the length ot' the glove. The strip of kid from Which the thumbpiece is formed is continued beyond the base of the thumb, and is of such alength that a welt at its end may come in a line with a Welt at the extremity ot' the Wristband. The side edges of the strip are sewed to the edges of the slit in the wrist and palm of the glove. The

Width of the strip is sufficient to allow the Wristband of the glove to be opened out, so lthat a persons hand may readily be passed through it. The Wristband is drawn together and made to fit closely round the Wrist when the glove is on, preferably by means of elastic bands fastenedgto'the back of the strip andto the Wristband, or it might be by other means.

Figure 1 of the drawings annexed shows aglove made as above described. Fig. 2 is a plan view, showing the shape to which the 5o kid or such like material is cut to form the greater part ofthe glove. In it is cut a slit, A, ofthe form shown. Fig. 3 is a similar View of the strip B, from which the thumb-piece is to be formed. Fig. 4 shows the glove opened out 55 at the Wristband to be put onto the hand.

The end B ot' the piece from which the thumb is to be formed is doubled over, and the edges sewed together, as usual, to about the line C. The continuation ofthe side edges are 6o then sewed to two sides of a triangular gussetpiece, suoli as usually employed at the fork, where the thumb meets the hand. The other side of this gusset-piece is sewed to the inner end ot' the slot A, (see Fig. 2,) from about the 65 point D to the point E. The remainder of the side edges of the thumb-piece are seWed directly to the two sides of the slot A. F F F are elastic bands, fastened tothe back ot' the strip forming the thumb-piece and to the wrist- 7o continuous slit, and with the strip which forms 8o the thumb-piece prolonged to the welt at the extremity of the Wristband and sewed at its side edges to the edges of said slit, substantially as hereinbetore set forth.

2. The combination, with the Wristband and thumb-piece, ofthe elastic bands or material across the back of the strip forming the thumbpiece, the said thumb-piece strip being sewed to the edges of the slit extending to the Wristband, as described.

Y HENRY URWIGK.

Witnesses: t

GHAs. BERKLEY HARRIS, J. WATT, Y

Both oj'l7 Graceclmrch Street, London. 

